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  1. Title: Carte d'Europe, 1724 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Carte d'Europe : dressée pour l'usage du Roy sur les itineraires anciens et modernes et sur les routiers de mer assujetis aux observations astronomiques. It was published by: Chez l'auteur, Quay de l'Horloge, avec privilege in 1724. Scale ca. 1:8,800,000. Map in French. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Europe Lambert Conformal Conic (EPSG: 102014) coordinate system. All map features and collar and inset information are shown as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of geographies, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

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  2. Title: Nieuwe afteekening van het eyland Minorca, geleegen in de Middellandsche Zee, ca. 1726 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Nieuwe afteekening van het eyland Minorca, geleegen in de Middellandsche Zee. It was published by: Gerard van Keulen, met Previlegie ca. 1726. Scale not given.. Map in Dutch. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the WGS 1984 UTM Zone 31N (EPSG: 32631) coordinate system. All map features and collar and inset information are shown as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of geographies, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

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  3. Title: Toulouse, France, ca. 1690-1699 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plan de Tolose divise en huict capitoulats : dedie A Mrs. les Capitouls Juges et Directeurs de la Ville et Gardiage de Tolose par Mr. Jouvin de Rochefort, Tresorier de France. It was published by Chez de Fer, sur le Quay de l'Orloge dans l'Isle du Palais a la Sphere Royale between 1690 and 1699. Scale [ca. 1:3,800]. Covers Toulouse, France. Map in French.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the European Datum 1950, Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Zone 31N projected coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, drainage, built-up areas and selected buildings, fortification, ground cover, and more.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

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  4. Title: Bay of Bengal Region, ca. 1708 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Sinus Gangeticus : vulgo golfo de Bengala nova descriptio. It was published by Typis G. Valk, et P. Schenk, ca. 1708. Scale [ca. 1:5,000,000]. Covers the Bay of Bengal region. Map in Latin.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the World Miller Cylindrical projected coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as drainage, cities and other human settlements, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown pictorialy, depths by soundings.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

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  5. Title: Totius Neobelgii nova et accuratissima tabula

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    Summary: Shows New England, parts of Middle Atlantic States and part of Virginia. Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. "Reproduced by A.C. Austin Eng. Co., Albany, N.Y." Facsimile of map published in Amsterdam, ca. 1725, a later issue of the map originally published by Hugo Allard. Cf. "New light on the Jansson-Visscher maps of New England" / T. Campbell. Map collector's circle, no. 24, 1965. Includes ill. and view of "Nieuw-Amsterdam onlangs Nieuw Jorck genaemt" with its key.

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  6. Title: Septemtrionaliora Americæ à Groenlandia, per Freta Davidis et Hudson, ad Terram Novam

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Inset map of Fish Bay, Disko Island and coast of Greenland. The fourth state of a map originally published by Frederik de Wit in 1675. From: Atlas van zeevaart en koophandel door de geheele weereldt ... / ... door den Heer Louis Renard ... Te Amsterdam : by Reinier en Iosua Ottens, 1745. 48 x 54 centimeters Scale approximately 1:1,900,800 General Map Collection

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  7. Title: Septemtrionaliora Americæ à Groenlandia, per Freta Davidis et Hudson, ad Terram Novam

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Inset map of Fish Bay, Disko Island and coast of Greenland. The fourth state of a map first published by Frederik de Wit in 1675. From: Atlas van zeevaart en koophandel door de geheele weereldt ... / ... door den Heer Louis Renard ... Te Amsterdam : by Reinier en Iosua Ottens, 1745.

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  8. Title: Tractus australior Americæ Meridionalis, a Rio de la Plata per Fretum Magellanicum ad Toraltum = Nieuwe perfecte pascaert van 't suyderlykste deel van Suyt America, van Rio de la Plata door de straet Magellaen tot Toral

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    Summary: Includes decorative cartouche and illustrations of ships. A later state of a map first published by Frederik de Wit in 1675. From: Atlas van zeevaert en koophandel door de geheele weereldt ... / voorheen in de Fransche taele uytg. door Louis Renard ... Amsterdam: By Reinier en Iosua Ottens, 1745.

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  9. Title: Novissima tabula regni Hungariæ : et regionum quondam ei unitarum ut Transilvaniæ, Valachiæ, Moldaviæ, Serviæ, Romaniæ, Bulgariæ, Bessarabiæ, Croatiæ, Bosniæ, Dalmatiæ, Slavoniæ, Morlachiæ et reipublicæ Ragusanæ : accedit pars magna dominii Veneti, maris Adriatici et regionum adjacentium, totus penè Danubius, regiones quas præters: fluviiq[ue] omnes qui in eum influunt

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. In lower left corner: 30. 48 x 87 centimeters Scale [1:2,000,000] General Map Collection

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  10. Title: Exactissima et postomnes alias nunc demùm edita tabula continens perfectam descriptionem regnorum Arragoniæ et Navarræ, principatûs Cataloniæ : nec non partium conterminarum, Biscajæ utriusque Castellæ, ac Valentiæ

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. The Ottens family firm continued under brothers Reinier and Josua after the death of their mother in 1725, until the death of Reinier in 1750. cf. Tooley's dictionary of mapmakers.

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  11. Title: Totius Neobelgii nova et accuratissima tabula

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    Summary: Shows New England, parts of Middle Atlantic States and part of Virginia. Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Hand colored. Title in illustrative cartouche. Includes ill. and view of "Nieuw-Amsterdam onlangs Nieuw Jorck genaemt" with its key. A later issue of the map originally published by Hugo Allard. Cf. "New light on the Jansson-Visscher maps of New England" / T. Campbell. Map collector's circle, no. 24, 1965. Date of publication from Burden.

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  12. Title: Oostende, Belgium, ca. 1727 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Nouveau plan de la ville d'Ostende : ville forte du Comte de Flandre celebre par l'octroy de l'empereur pour la navigation aux Indes Orientales. It was published by chez R. & J. Ottens, sur le Nieuwendyk a la Carte du Monde ca. 1727. Scale [ca. 1:3,900]. Covers Oostende, Belgium. Map in French.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Belgian Lambert 1972 coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, drainage, built-up areas and selected buildings, fortifications, ground cover, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes index.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

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  13. Title: Accuratissima Europae tabula, 173u- (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Accuratissima Europae tabula : multis locis correcta et nuperrime edita per F. de Wit. It was published by: Ex officina R. & Io. Ottens, 173u. Scale ca. 1:10,750,000. Map in Latin. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Europe Lambert Conformal Conic (EPSG: 102014) coordinate system. All map features and collar and inset information are shown as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of geographies, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

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  14. Title: Ky?to-shi, Japan, ca. 1732 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plan de Miaco residence de l'empereur ecclesiastique : copie d'apres l'original japonnois ... qui se trouve dans le Cabinet du Chevalier Hans Sloane = Platte grondt van de stad Miaco, zetel van den geestelyken erf-keyzer van Japan : na een origineele japansche kaart ... onder den Ridder Hans Sloane berustende door J. G. Scheuchser. It was published by chez R. & I. Ottens in ca. 1732. Scale [ca. 1:14,000]. Covers Ky?to-shi, Japan. Map in French and Dutch.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Tokyo Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Zone 53N projected coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as drainage, streets, mountains, selected buildings, and more. Relief shown pictorially.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

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  15. Title: Chao Phraya River Region, Thailand, 1730 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Carte du cours de la riviere de Meinam, depuis Judia jusqua son embouchure, dessinee par Eng. Kaempfer ; [engraved by] I. G. S. It was published by chez R. [et] I. Ottens in 1730. Scale [ca. 1:350,000]. Covers the Chao Phraya River region, Thailand. Map in French and Dutch.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM Zone 47N, meters, WGS 1984) projected coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as drainage, cities and other human settlements, administrative boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Includes notes and inset map of Judia [i.e. Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya].This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

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  16. Title: North Africa & Mediterranean Sea Region, ca. 1744 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Africae magna pars ad illustrationem historiae ecclesiasticae, imprimis faciens, magno studio et labore ex antiquis auctoribus concinnata aerique incisa manu et sumtibensus Matth. Seutteri, Chalcogr. Augustae Vindelicorum. It was published by Reiner Ottens, ca. 1744. Scale [ca. 1:4,600,000]. Covers North Africa and the Mediterranean coast of Europe. Map in Latin.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Africa Sinusoidal projected coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as drainage, cities and other human settlements, roads and routes, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown pictorially. Includes also text.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

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  17. Title: Copenhagen, Denmark, 1728 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Naaukeurige aftekening van de koninglyke Deensche hoofd en residentie stad Koppenhagen :met de aftekening van de swaren brand op den 20 October en volgende dagen A? 1728, uitgegeven door Reinier & Josua Ottens op de Nieuwendyk tot Amsterdam. It was published by Reinier & Josua Ottens in 1728. Scale [ca. 1:8,000]. Map in Dutch.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the European Datum 1950 UTM Zone 33N coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map.This map shows features such as roads, drainage, canals, wharves, docks, built-up areas and selected buildings, fortifications, and more. Includes indexes.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from The Harvard Map Collection as part of the Imaging the Urban Environment project. Maps selected for this project represent major urban areas and cities of the world, at various time periods. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features at a large scale. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.

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  18. Title: Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1727 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Amstelaedami Emporii totivs Evropae celeberrimi nova et accvaratissima delineatio = Naaukeurige afbeelding van de wydvermaarde koopstadt Amsterdam. It was published by Reiner & Josua Ottens in [1727]. Scale [1:7,650]. Covers a portion of Amsterdam. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Dutch National Grid: RD (Rijksdriehoekstelsel) GCS Amersfoort (Bessel 1841) coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, bridges, drainage, canals, wharves, docks, built-up areas and selected buildings, water mills, city wards, and more. Includes illustrations and indexes. Map text in Dutch and Latin. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from The Harvard Map Collection as part of the Imaging the Urban Environment project. Maps selected for this project represent major urban areas and cities of the world, at various time periods. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features at a large scale. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.

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  19. Title: Amerique Septentrionale devisée en ses principales parties

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    Summary: 1 map : col. ; 46 x 57 cm See Phillips 522, 4257, 5956 for listings of various editions of this map. The dates above are taken from Phillips 522.

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  20. Title: Carte des possessions angloises & françoises du continent de l'Amérique septentrionale = Kaart van de Engelsche en Fransche bezittingen in het vaste land van Noord America, 1755.

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    Summary: Colored by hand with some French forts circled in red. Relief shown pictorially. Shows "Longitude occidentale de Londres" and "de l'île de Fer." Described in Woodbury Lowery's The Lowery collection. 1912. WL 420. Based on Jean Palairet's Carte des possessions angloises françoises du continent de l'Amerique septentrionale, 1755. 1 map: hand col.; 42 x 57 cm.

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